The nominations for the 65th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 2007, were announced early Thursday morning by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. A whopping seven films were nominated for the dramatic best picture (American Gangster, Atonement, Eastern Promises, The Great Debaters. Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men, and There Will Be Blood), while five films are vying for the best musical or comedy best picture award (Across The Universe, Charlie Wilson’s War, Hairspray, Juno, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street). The prizes, selected by a group of about 100 U.S. based reporters who write for international publications, will be presented in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 13th at 8 p.m., ET.

Joe Wright‘s “Atonement” led the overall nominations with seven, including nods for Wright, James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan and screenwriter Christopher Hampton. Mike Nichols‘ “Charlie Wilson’s War” surprised, following “Atonement” with five nods, including its three stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who also picked up a nod for “The Savages.” “Michael Clayton,” “No Country For Old Men” and “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” each picked up four nominations.

Cate Blanchett was also a double nominee, with nods for both “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” and “I’m Not There,” while notable snubs included “Once,” “Margot at the Wedding,” and Sean Penn‘s favored “Into The Wild,” which only pick up nods for song and score. Among foreign-language films, the big winner was Julian Schnabel‘s “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” which took three nominations including director, screenplay and foreign-language film. It was joined in the latter category by “The Kite Runner,” “Lust, Caution,” and Oscar hopefuls “Persepolis” and “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.”

“Atonement”‘s Focus Features led all nominations with 11, followed by Paramount Vantage, Miramax Films and Warner Brothers, which each received 10.